California Bites Bullet of $1.8M Per Day for Failed High-Speed Train

Newsmax ^ | October 9, 2022 | Eric Mack

[Navy Patriot]

California's pricey and now-failed bullet train costs about $1.8 million a day, but without a light at the end of the tunnel on how it can be completed as designed, experts told The New York Times.

The bullet train sought to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco, but the only thing it has brought is red tape and a bulging bottom line: from $33 billion when planned in 2008 to be finished in 2020 to an estimated $105 billion in February to $113 billion now to be finished in 2030, the Times reported.

"There is nothing but problems on the project," State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon complained.

[Navy Patriot]

The project was amazingly successful at stealing huge amounts of farmland from California small farmers and ranchers, and stealing their water rights, which was the real purpose of the project.

Control of the ordinary people.

[Leep]

They can’t make the train run..let alone make it run on time.
Can hardly wait til there are 100 million+ EVs on the road.

[Huskrrrr]

How unexpected. s/

[Tell It Right]

Huntsville, AL designed rockets to take man to the moon.

California can't even design a train. LOL

[dila813]

They could have just chartered planes for less

[day10]

California Taxpayers Bite Bullet of $1.8M Per Day for Failed High-Speed Train Fixed it.

[Don Corleone]

Newsom’s version of Boston’s “Big Dig”.

[OKC Patriot]

Boy have times changed…. Just think it only took 6 years to complete the first transcontinental railroad from Nebraska to Sacramento, completed in 1869..

[1Old Pro]

Newsom’s version of Boston’s “Big Dig”.

It's actually a BIG PAYOFF to union workers public and private.

[Cobra64]

Run Gavin… run! You dork.

[gitmo]

They can’t build a 350-mile rail line? But the US was doing this in the 1930’s.

[TalonDJ]

"But the US was doing this in the 1830’s." Fixed it.

[Jim Robinson]

It will remain a monument to government stupidity.

[Lockbox]

California can't even design a train. LOL

It’s not design a train, it’s duplicate what already has been design, tested and perfected!

[gitmo]

Thanks. You’re correct.

[Lurker]

“ but without a light at the end of the tunnel on how it can be completed as designed.”

It can’t be completed as designed.

L

[Tell It Right]

I agree with NavyPatriot. It’s not about the train and never was. It was an excuse to steal land from the real movers and shakers like farmers.

[dfwgator]

It was an excuse to steal land from the real movers and shakers like farmers.

- Maybe you know why's a high-roller... like Hedley Lamarr interested in Rock Ridge.

- Don't know. Got to do with where choo-choo go.

[srmanuel]

Regardless of the price, if California were able to complete the construction, it would never operate at anything close to break even, it would require millions per year to remain running.

No one would ride the train, whatever the projections are for ridership, it will never approach those levels.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I suspect that this disaster is costing a lot more than $1.8 million a day.